the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called… — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now. — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We were fascinated by the little glass spheres, by those dark waves of color, some narrow and drawn out into several swirls,… — José Maria Arguedas Copy Share Image
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an horse: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey,… — Sumner Redstone Copy Share Image
Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a… — Brooks Hays Copy Share Image
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image